“The rest of my life belongs to my culture, my language, my God and my nation.”

—  Eugène Terre'Blanche

Interview by Antoinette Keyser http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249083&area=/insight/insight__national/, (25 August 2005).

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